Polymorphism is an infrequent phenomenon in platinum group complexes. Surprisingly, we found a new monoclinic crystal modification (
C2/
c) of a relatively simple compound, platinum(II) acetate Pt
4(OCOMe)
8
(
2) (monoclinic
C2/
c
(
2), monoclinic
P2
1/
c
(
3) and tetragonal
P4
32
12 (
4)). The polymorph was prepared by a novel synthetic protocol and structurally identified by single crystal X-ray diffraction (SC-XRD) using synchrotron radiation X-ray source. Examination of the intermolecular interaction by Hirshfeld surface analysis of
2 and its comparison with another known polymorphs – monoclinic (
P2
1/
c,
3) and tetragonal (
P4
32
12,
4) ones, – as well as analysis of packaging motifs revealed the responsibility of weak interactions for their formation.
This is an excerpt of the article
HIDDEN COMPLEXITY OF A SIMPLE COMPOUND:
UNEXPECTED POLYMORPHISM OF TETRANUCLEAR PLATINUM(II)
ACETATE Pt4(OCOMe)8.
Full text of the paper is published in Journal of Structural Chemistry.
DOI: 10.1134/S00224766250901148